Breathing in Confinement – At least 579 individuals were executed in Iran during last year.<\/p>\n
According to the report of the Center of \u00a0Statistics of \u201cBreathing in Confinement”; 55 executions were carried out in public.<\/p>\n
According to this report, only 188 of these executions were announced by the Official Media of Iran and the rest have been reported by human rights news agencies.<\/p>\n
The report states that during last year 23 prisoners of conscience were also executed.<\/p>\n
In the first case, on 5th<\/sup> January 2014, 15 Balooch prisoners were hanged in Chabahar prison.<\/p>\n Also, on 17th<\/sup> April, Samkoo Khorshidi was executed in Kermanshah prison on charge of supporting Kurdish parties.<\/p>\n Less than 2 months later, on 1st<\/sup> June, Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani was hanged in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, on charge of supporting \u201cPMOI\u201d.<\/p>\n Then Ali Chebishat and Seied khaled Mousavi, 2 Ahwazi Arab prisoners were executed on June 13th in Ahvaz prison.<\/p>\n With the beginning of the new academic year, Mohsen Amiraslany who had been\u00a0charged with “innovation in religion” was hanged in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. According to the sentence issued by the Supreme Court, which was published after his death, the judicial body considered his death sentence as an illegal verdict and the execution was described as \u201cillegal and illicit\u201d.<\/p>\n In the last case, Vahid Shahbakhsh and Mahmoud Shahbakhsh, 2 Balooch political prisoners were hanged in Zahedan prison.<\/p>\n Also on 24th<\/sup> May, Mahafarid Amir Khosravi one of the defendants of the so-called \u201c3 billion Tomans case\u201d, was executed in Evin prison without his attorney and family being informed.<\/p>\n The report indicates that at least 8 citizens of Afghanistan, one Pakistani and 1 Iraqi were among those executed during this period of time.<\/p>\n However, the highest number of executions, 286 cases, belongs to prisoners who had been charged with drug trafficking. 149 prisoners were hanged on charge of murder, 30 prisoners on charge of rape and 12 prisoners were executed on charge of armed robbery.<\/p>\n The Center of \u00a0Statistics of \u201cBreathing in Confinement”\u00a0also announced the execution of 18 women in this\u00a0time frame\u00a0and at least 8 juveniles.<\/p>\n One of the women was Reihaneh Jabbari, who was executed on 25th<\/sup> October, despite enormous international condemnation.<\/p>\n Earlier, Amnesty International had urged the Iranian authorities to commute her death sentence. She was accused of murdering a man who tried to rape her.<\/p>\n In 2 separate cases, 4 men in Rasht city and Shiraz city also alleged with some charges that supported suspicion of being gay were executed.<\/p>\n On 2nd <\/sup>March 2014, IRIB announced the execution of 2 men who were charged with “Acts against the Sharia Law” in Rasht prison. It is said; the Islamic Republic of Iran accuses gay people with “Acts against the Sharia Law” and sentences them to execution.<\/p>\n On 6th<\/sup> August 2014 Fars province court publicised the news of public execution of 2 men who were charged with “Sodomy”. Some human rights activists believe that, as the report did not mention anything about an act of raping\u00a0so the two men were sentenced to death for being gay.<\/p>\n It is to say that at least 1242 prisoners have been executed in Iran since the beginning of Hassan Rohani’s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Breathing in Confinement – At least 579 individuals were executed in Iran during last year. 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